The Magnificent City The Romans got for FREE | 14:39
Street Gems | 43K subscribers | 264,902 views | December 23, 2023
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The Magnificent City The Romans got for FREE | 14:39
Street Gems | 43K subscribers | 264,902 views | December 23, 2023
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This documentary is about a great Greek city with a long and rich history, which was given to Rome as a gift, in a will.
This city was controlled by the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Period. But when the last Attalid king died without an heir, he gifted his kingdom to Rome, which included this magnificent city.
This city was Ephesus. When it got absorbed into the Roman Empire, it became one of its key cities, being a major port city on the west coast of Anatolia.
It was eventually made the provincial capital of the Roman Province of Asia, and a crucial economic link between the eastern part of the empire and the west.
This video is the 2nd episode in a 4 part series about Ephesus, the first part covering the Ancient Greek history of the city, and this part covering the Roman history.
A good portion of this video explores the different monuments that still exist at the ancient site of Ephesus, and gives a good overall tour of the site, its topography, and its architecture and archaeology.
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Ephesus was one of the most important cities in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
It was even older than Rome itself, founded around 950 BC.
Very early on in the Archaic Age, it became home to the most important sanctuary of the cult of Artemis, and for the rest of ancient pagan history, was the prime location for her worship in the Greek speaking world.
The Ephesians built a massive temple to her, which was rebuilt twice more, with the 3rd temple making the list of the 7 wonders of the ancient world.
This gave Ephesus a prestige that only a handful of other cities enjoyed for their own reasons, such as Olympia for the Olympic Games, Athens for the Parthenon, and Delphi for its infamous oracle at the Temple of Apollo, who was the brother of Artemis.
Ephesus continued to be an important Greek city through the Classical Age, even though it was under the Persians, as well as during the Hellenistic Age.
Not only was the temple rebuilt twice, but the city was rebuilt in a completely separate location 2 km away during the Hellenistic Age, due to reasons I explain in the video. So the city overall experienced a lot of change and evolution over the 800 years that it existed before its absorption into the Roman Empire.
But the story is not over yet. It continued to be a very important city during Roman times, and according to some, the second most important city in the empire after Rome.
This video covers the key historical moments of the city until that point, when the Romans came in and completely transformed it yet again, into an imperial scale city.The City that Built the Largest Greek Temple in History | 13:15
Street Gems | 43K subscribers | 186,906 views | November 4, 2023
Come on a journey to ancient Ephesus. This short video will guide you through what it looks like today, and what it might have looked like 2000 years ago.What Ancient Ephesus Looked Like | 1:27
Street Gems | 43K subscribers | 34,983 views | November 24, 2023
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BTW, the body of videos the author has produced is somewhat small, but there's another FR topic which has another one.
If the view in the introduction is of the city as it was in Roman or Greek times, then it is an amazing example of early city planning.
I’d guess that, as with many/most ancient sites, it’s a layer cake, but the Romans tended to have a much more organized template in their colonies, as opposed to Rome itself and pre-conquest origin towns in Italy.
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